Neville Goddard

Confirmed NOT the same as
Other names
Neville Lancelot Goddard
Birth date
Death date
Spouse
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Mildred Mary Hughes
Children
Victoria Goddard
Joseph Neville Goddard
Relatives
Cecil Goddard
Victor Goddard
Lawrence Goddard
Fred Goddard
Collin Goddard
Art Goddard
Carl Goddard
Bruce Goddard
Daphne Batterson (Neville's sister)
Joseph "Joe" Goddard (Neville's father)
Wilhelmina Goddard
Wikidata QID
Q343517
Wikipedia URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Goddard
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

after 16 March 1970
unresolved
Neville visits the certificate-covered office of his hypnotist doctor friend
Los Angeles possible
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-07-20 [after/probable/bound] God's Seven Eyes I will not mention his name — I have a friend of mine who is a doctor. And he took course after course in hypnosis. He’s a regular doctor. But all these degrees are on his wall, in hypnosis. So proud of the fact that someone gave him this, because he paid the price for it. And they’re all over his wall. I’m embarrassed when I sit in his office and look at them. Because he really is a very, very fine doctor in his own profession. Why all this nonsense? All over the world, people are so proud of all these silly little things. 556085
before 1959
unresolved
Neville awakens in another world to appear to his distant sister
Barbados
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-06-11 [exact/certain/final] The Seven Eyes of God I know, for I have done it. Many a time, finding myself dreaming, I have held on to an object in the dream and found myself awakening in another world. I have also found myself in other aspects of this world. I did it in Barbados when I wished to be seen by my sister who was 2000 miles away. But whether it be in this little aspect or in another world, it does not matter, for there are infinite worlds and you are heir to all of them. 529039
before 1959
unresolved
Neville repeatedly practices hearing fulfilled desires
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-11-10 [exact/certain/final] The Only Christianity I have personally done this unnumbered times. It is the only Christianity in the world. It has nothing to do with any church. The only Christianity is the liberty to exercise the divine arts of Imagination. Can I do it? Who is doing it? God is doing it! I do not have to make any form. The supreme power of the universe is one with human Imagination. 529297
1959
certain
Neville's early vision erupts in understanding thirty years later
San Francisco
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1969-10-25 [exact/probable/final] Paul's Prayer Interpreted I know, when it happened to me, I only made a note of it. I did not understand the experience. And true knowledge is not merely experience, but the understanding of experience. I pondered it and talked about it. I told others about it. They pooh-poohed the idea, “That was a vivid, vivid dream, Neville.” All right . . to them a vivid dream. I still kept it alive in my mind’s eye and pondered it, and I lived with it, and thirty years later, to the month, it erupted. And that embrace that took place thirty years before, which was an impregnation from my Father, unfolded within me and I… 551304
before 1959
unresolved
Neville is instructed to reveal the Western Gate practice
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-06-11 [exact/certain/final] The Seven Eyes of God So I must learn to experience feeling and touching. That is called the Western Gate, and it is closed in man, but he must learn about it, and before I close this eye he must learn much about the Western Gate, for I was told not to hold back one secret, and having had the experience of holding on to an object and awakening not on my bed at all, I must share it with you. I awake in the world where I am holding the object. I have been shut out many times from this world by holding on to an object in that world and awakening in it, and it was just as real as this, but I came back to this. I had a… 529044
before 1959
unresolved
Neville projects from his body and confronts a wall
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-11-13 [exact/certain/final] Esau and Jacob Then came others of a secondary state of this division. I was projected with a certain intensity out of my body. I became aware for the first time of this division and that I was more than just this being of flesh and blood. I was out, and this Reality was in the room looking at this body on the bed. Then I desired to get back into the body, integrating as a unit, and do it consciously. I did it, and then with a deliberate conscious intention I intensified this power and I felt myself moving out again. I desired to come down into the room, and I made a sort of loop. A cloud formation was over… 529320
between 1959 and 1963
probable
Neville tells clergy about his mystical experience
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1963-04-26 [exact/certain/final] Life Has a Purpose I’ve talked since it happened to me to dozens and dozens of ministers, and they all turn away from me. They think they’re in the presence of mad men because they were not taught it any more than I was taught it. I was raised in the same strict orthodox background that they were. I’ve talked to rabbis; I’ve talked to priests, Catholic priests; I’ve talked to Protestant ministers; and none of them see it. And it’s true. God gives the individual his only begotten son, and that son is David, David of biblical fame. The only one, it’s David. 530275
11 April 1969
unresolved
Neville contrasts his post-1959 experiences with his earlier lectures
Los Angeles
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1969-04-11 [exact/certain/final] The Perfect Image Learn to use the law, because there is a long interval between the law and the promise. Those who heard me prior to 1959 are unfamiliar with my experiences since that time, and my words may seem strange to you. I cannot deny the law, for I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them. This I have done. 539692
between May 1904 and 19 February 1905
unresolved
Neville describes God entering his body before his birth
Barbados
with Wilhelmina Goddard
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-06-16 [exact/certain/final] The Cup and the Cross God became man and he is in every being. There is no other way that God could become me but by giving Himself in that becoming. Though I call myself Neville, it is still God. You think that is blasphemy? I do not care what you think. Every child born of woman is God and that which became man is Christ Jesus. It bears this cross of man and this state is like a tomb, and as Blake says, “God himself enters death’s door with them who enter it and lies down in the grave with them in visions of eternity until they awaken.” God himself entered this “grave” when I jumped in my mother’s womb. And he… 529074
before 1959
unresolved
Neville imaginally sleeps in Barbados and manifests the trip
Barbados
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-11-13 [exact/certain/final] Esau and Jacob When I wanted to go to Barbados and did not have a penny, I slept in my Imagination in Barbados and saw the world from Barbados, and I went there through the efforts of my family, who thought they had initiated the trip. When I identified myself with a state, others responded. They moved like automatons. And then I wondered if I should do it, and then I went back to that passage in Genesis: “You shall serve your brother.” And every man in the world you shall serve. And then you feel right about it. This one was imagining and every being in the world is serving him. You do not have to ask… 529326
between 1959 and 1963
probable
Neville sees a runt pig and an eternal candle in vision
with Victor Goddard, Victoria Goddard
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1964-05-05 [exact/certain/final] The Clever Rascal (The Unjust Steward) Did you hear that question? The pig is the symbol—-you can find it in any great book of symbolism—-has always been the savior, the redeemer of the world, the symbol of it. The prodigal went prodigal, spent all of his money, and he was feeding the pig, that was his last job, and eating the food that belonged to the pig. He was really a steward in the extreme sense of the word. To share with you, Tom, for you haven’t been here since I had this experience…and a few years ago I had this vision. I found myself one night fully awake in an enormous display of flowers and plant life. It was closing… 546739
between 1911 and September 1922
unresolved
Neville watches island children arrive for school during his Barbados boyhood
Barbados
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-10-06 [exact/certain/final] That Which Already Has Been I send my child to school to prepare her for living in the world, not to punish her, but to do it I must send her out. In Barbados we have a good school system, though not beyond high school, and when I was a boy there I would see these children arriving from the other islands at the beginning of the school year with their new clothes and their new books. They thought it was exciting, not knowing what it was all about. But then the time came for the parents to kiss them goodbye and leave them in this strange place, and many a child cried himself to sleep not just for a night but for the whole… 529174
before 1959
unresolved
Neville's vision of making the sea stand still
New York City
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away On the 20th of July, three years ago, in this very city, I had the experience of being born from above, and yet several years prior to that experience, in New York City, I had the experience of having the sea stand still, because I arrested in my head an activity which animated it, and when I released that activity, the things moved on. Whether it’s beast or fowl, when I stopped them — please imagine calling “stop!” and then look up after I release it — the waters, and the dinosaurs — I stopped them, they couldn’t move, and everything was done not “there,” but done in me. 555888
between September 1943 and April 1957
unresolved
Neville verifies an imagined New York marquee detail
New York City
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-11-13 [exact/certain/final] Esau and Jacob Here is another exercise. I would sit physically in my living room in New York City and assume that I was actually standing on the street in front of my apartment house, and standing there on the street I would see details on the marquee of the building. Physically I was in my living room on the sixteenth floor but in my Imagination I was on the street and I was seeing it. Then, still in Imagination, I would walk back into the building, come upstairs and sit down where Esau was. And the next time I actually did go out and took Esau, when I reached the street and looked at the marquee I saw on… 529328
between 1959 and 1963
probable
A listener rejects Neville's claim to be the Father
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1963-04-26 [exact/certain/final] Life Has a Purpose It is said to him, “Show us the Father and we’ll be satisfied.” He said, “I have been with you so long and you do not know the Father? He who sees me sees the Father. I am the way to the Father. No one comes unto the Father save by me.” But they didn’t understand him—that I am the Father—and I said that after it happened. A man said to me, “Well, it’s not recorded in scripture.” You’ve got to go back in scripture; it’s got to be recorded in scripture that he’s a father.” And when you quote him, he still can’t see it. But now he goes further. 530279
1959
unresolved
Neville Goddard begins experiencing 'The Promise'
San Francisco
4 sources
4 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1966-10-14 [exact/certain/final] What Must We Do So I have been experiencing, night after night, all the things concerning the awakening of God in man. The awakening of the tree that grows not outside that the gods of the earth and sea are seeking, but grows from the inside in the human brain. And every night is simply another petal, another blossom appears, with another expression of what it represents. If you saw this little thing, one single little cell, a whole tree, and a hundred billion of them? Can you see why Blake said, “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination, of which this world of… 534165
No date on record Neville Goddard Wikipedia

He later wrote, “I did not know of The Promise until I began to experience it and have it unfold within me beginning that summer and continuing during the next three-and-one-half years. And this is Scriptural; read it in the Book of Daniel where it is referred to as ‘a time, times, and a half. It comes to 1260 days in your experience of it. In the latter part of the 1960s and early 1970s Neville gave more emphasis to The Promise than to The Law.

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No date on record Neville Goddard Wikipedia

Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite St. Michael, Barbados in the British West Indies Psychological truth of Biblical teaching Joseph Neville Goddard (first marriage), Victoria “Vicky” Goddard (second marriage) —Neville Lancelot Goddard is born on February 19 to a British family in St. Michael, Barbados, the fourth child in a family of nine boys and one girl. —At age seventeen Neville relocates to New York City to study theater. He makes a career as an actor and dancer on stage and silent screen, landing roles on Broadway, silent film, and touring Europe as part of a dance troupe. Neville…

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No date on record Neville Goddard In Prologue To William Walker Atkinsons The Arcane Teaching

Neville once said that if he was stranded on an island and was allowed one book, he would choose, The Bible, without hesitation. If he could squeeze in more, he would add Charles Fillmore’s Metaphysical Dictionary of Bible names, William Blake, (“.. Why stand we here trembling around, Calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells”) and Nicolls Commentaries. These were the books he In his lectures and books, Neville dealt solely with The Law until the year 1959, “For I did not know of The Promise until I began to experience it and have it unfold within me beginning that…

98601
before 1959
unresolved
Neville takes a year off work and spends a fortune
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1971-04-26 [exact/probable/final] Control Your Inner Conversations I tell you from my own experience, before the Promise was realized in me, seemingly I had this conversation with my brother. Formerly I would argue mentally, — we were five thousand miles apart, — and I needed money at that time; and when I found myself arguing with him, I broke it — tore that entire record up. And whether he sent me a nickel or not, I loved him and praised him and thanked him, and went about my business, not knowing where the next was coming from, for I had spent a fortune by taking off one solid year and living at the same level that I had lived in previous years, and spent… 550278
before 1959
unresolved
Neville practices identifying with objects and animals
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-11-13 [exact/certain/final] Esau and Jacob Luckily for me when this began to appear when I was seven, there were no psychoanalysts in the little island of Barbados, and if there had been, my father could not have afforded them. They would not have known what was happening to me. Luckily for the work I was to do, I was born there on this little island that had no importance in the world - and no psychoanalysts! So no one could disturb what my Father was doing to bring about this separation. It went on for five years, from seven to twelve, and then I was torn apart, but I did not lift that being out until I was twenty-one and saw it… 529329
13 November 1959
unresolved
Neville delivers lecture "Esau and Jacob"
Baptist Church on 48th Street, New York City
4 sources
4 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1965-10-29 [exact/certain/final] Your Creative Power So in my audience in New York City…I spoke at a little old church called the Baptist Church on 48th Street, right off Times Square, and there we held forth three times a week, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday nights. So I told them what I had done, I told them the story just as I’ve told you, and told them how to do it, just as you just heard. 533431
1971-03-22 [exact/certain/final] The Law: Your Choice and Risk Then you will be able to understand Scripture. Here’s the one who said, “I AM from above, and you are from below. I AM not of this world; you are of this world.” Do you think one man is talking to men? No; it is one Being speaking to Himself. Here is the “outer man” called Neville who came into the world first. This is the “Esau” of Scripture. And then after that, comes another one, . . my own wonderful human imagination; and that’s the “Jacob.” This is the “twin” that comes into the world. They aren’t two separate little boys. This is the story; this is an adumbration of that which comes… 530892
No date on record Neville Goddard Edward Douglas Fawcett In Fawcetts Letter

Neville Goddard & Edward Douglas Fawcett in “Fawcett’s Letter” That’s why the great old man Fawcett, whom I quoted in my latest book, he said, “The greatest of all secrets is this great secret of imagining. If one could only unravel that secret! – Neville Goddard Neville Goddard mentions a quote from philosopher Edward Douglas Fawcett in at least six of his lectures There is also a Neville lecture called “Fawcett’s Letter” (1959) which is very interesting: “This platform is concerned only with Imaginism. We believe the Supreme Power that created the universe is all Imagination. We…

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No date on record Ancient Tantra Sir John Woodroffe The Translator Abdullah The Synthesizer Neville Goddard The Applier

Neville Goddard, “God’s Law,” April 9, 1965 – Quotes the “sesamum was sesamum” stanza from to illustrate the Law of identical harvest. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-gods-law/. Neville Goddard, “The Maker and the Maker of Things,” February 7, 1969 – Recalls meeting the old Scotsman in 1925 who gave him https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-the-maker-…

98066
before 1959
unresolved
Neville says he lived fully and to excess
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-09-08 [exact/certain/final] The Birth of the Babe I know the story is truer than I ever knew it to be (the story of the birth of Christ Jesus), but it is not something that took place; but it is taking place. I can make no pretense of holiness. I have done everything; I have lived life fully, and I think, richly. Everything I have done I have done to excess; that is the way I am. So I cannot be proud that I gave birth to that son, nor can I be ashamed, but when I see as I have seen, then I know the story is truer than the priesthoods of the world tell us. 529104